[[@http:// http://www.christophercolumbusawards.com/|middle school competition!]] (The Christopher Columbus Awards is a national, community-based science and technology program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams of three to four, with an adult coach, to identify a problem in their community and apply the scientific method to create an innovative solution to that problem.)
Coalition for Science After School
STEM and Nascar
Girl Scout STEM activities
http://www.ignitingcreativeenergy.org/
Creative Energy Challenge
http://www.youngeng.org/index.asp?page=1266 Young Engineers Challenge activties
http://www.alliantenergykids.com/FunandGames/CoolProjects/index.htm
http://nmoe.org/students/list.htm
List of challenge ideas ( with an academic key to show which curricular areas the challenge addresses)
http://nmoe.org/bubblewrap/index.html
Bubble wrap invention challenge for students
http://agpa.uakron.edu/p16/lesson.php?id=shocking&pg=abstract
student challenge using shock absorbing materials to protect a gelatin "head". Look through each "tab"